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Hey all: I have a quick question/problem. I have a program that converts files (not important) into HTML. The problem is when these files are created into html by this prog, what should be an li
  • shows up as ï ascii(357). I tried a simple replace but I am not too good with regex yet. How can I change this funny character into the ul or li that I want? Any help or hints is greatly appreciated!

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    Re: funny character
    by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 06, 2002 at 17:30 UTC
      Well, it cannot be ASCII 0357, and there are only 128 (0200) code points defined in ASCII....

      What you want is a simple replace: 

          s/\0357/•/g

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      (Or whatever entity you want).

      Abigail

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        The character he is talking about is character value 239. That is 0357 in octal notation.
        Update: changed "ASCII". Good catch, belg4mit.

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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          Errm, that wasn't Abigail-II's point exactly (octal vs. decimal). ASCII only defines 0-127, 128-255 are 8th bit and non-standard (in as much as sometimes random countries did random things. Heck, Germany even mucked about with []\{}|~). The char in question is probably from ISO-8859-1. More on character sets.

          --
          perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

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        Greetings,

        Looks you did not test... 

        
c:\temp>perl -e"s/\357/<li>/g&&print $_ while(<>)" funny.txt
<li><li><li>
c:\temp>perl -e"s/\0357/<li>/g&&print $_ while(<>)" funny.txt
c:\temp>

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        funny.txt contains 3 samples of the offending character.
        Cheers,
        alf
        You can't have everything: where would you put it?
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